On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 19:40 +0100, Marc Balmer wrote:
>
> Why is this no longer an issue?
>
> The BSD Unixes still support the Vax and are actually used. Doesn't
> IEEE in the protocol mean mean dropping support for such architectures?
This was very early VAXen; IEEE got added to the architecture in finite
time after its introduction (it was even a firmware retrofit on the
VAX-11/780 IIRC).
And we're talking about its use in more recent extensions: for example,
I doubt any VAX is going to want to run Render in software....
So I see no backward compatibility issue of merit here.
- Jim
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Jim Gettys <[email protected]>
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